These depressions, called salt pans, are characterized by concentric rings of special vegetation that can tolerate these highly salty conditions.
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Eccentric muscle training helps glucose tolerance more than concentric, which is what you get walking uphill both ways.
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concentric circles of security that you try to plan for, you try to do assessments, you try to do that kind of concentric circles.
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In many instances this has encouraged a shift away from 'concentric' or.
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But it's protected, for good reason, by a series of concentric walls.
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The concentric annual or yearly rings which appear on the end face of.
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And this paragraph seems to live within a maze of concentric contradictions.
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A few concentric ripples widened, travelled towards him, and were absorbed in the current.
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In the middle of the lantern was the large concentric-ringed glass of great magnifying power.
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"We call it 'concentric circle' travel — you travel in an area that's close to you," she says.
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The room spun in woozy concentric circles around it but the drain stayed centered, like a pivot.
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There should be between them harmony as sweet as that which moves the concentric rings of Saturn.
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"The ever-increasing concentric circles of poverty are not only morally wrong, they can be dangerous.".
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RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- In the vast concentric circles of Clintonian friendship, a new vocabulary defines coolness.
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The field in a simple glaucoma is apt to approach concentric limitation; namely, more like the field in simple atrophy.
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It occupies three sides of a parallelogram, has a handsome chapel, and a great cistern vaulted with concentric circles.
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A maple tree, over the pit, being cut down, two hundred and fifty concentric circles were counted, making the mound to be A.
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Drivers from the northwest have to navigate its rings of concentric circular highways to get to coastal ports or to head south.
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Acuvue Bifocal lenses, made by Vistakon, are made with five concentric viewing zones, which alternate like the rings on a bull's-eye.
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The Cube is full of quirky designs, like the “pebble drop” headliner with concentric, raised circles and the asymmetrical rear window.
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Ever-widening circles were somewhere, widening and pulsating bigger, concentric circles forming out of larger concentric circles, on and on.
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The concentric ring of canals that make up the old city are extensions of the routes that led to China, India, and the southern tip of Africa.
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In the centre of this incomplete circle, there was described a luminous disc, surrounded by the prismatic colours displayed in concentric rings.
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Working in acrylic on panel, he plays inventive variations on the theme of the concentric circle, evoking the divisions and metastasizing of cells.
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By means of this fixed centre-point any number of concentric circles may be drawn, without making a hole of very distinguishable size on the paper.
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It is obvious that the points of the teeth and the bottoms of the spaces, as well as the pitch circle, are concentric to the axis of the wheel bore.
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There are in addition an oil pressure gauge, a petrol pressure gauge, a glass petrol level and two concentric glass pressure gauges for gas pressure.
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